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“…The postcolonial moment generated new demands and movements by subaltern subjects around self-determination, antiracism and economic justice. The NGOised Christian missions had to respond to these changes (Compton Brouwer, 2010: 261; Barnett, 2011; Hearn, 2002; King, 2019; Maxwell, 2005; Ngo, 2018; Vongsathorn, 2012). The shifting of seafarer recruitment from the North Atlantic eastward also changed the character, workplace rights and preoccupations of seafarers served by the Missions.…”

Section: The Mission and The Power Structures In The Gulfmentioning

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Humanitarianism and racial capitalism in the age of global shipping

Khalili

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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In what ways does humanitarianism uphold racial capitalism? The article draws on and expands Cedric Robinson’s arguments about the relationship between humanitarianism and racial capitalism in his Black Marxism. It does so by focusing on the Mission to Seafarers in the countries of the Persian/Arabian Gulf. The Mission has worked alongside state institutions and businesses, both before and after independence from Britain, to facilitate maritime trade through these Arabian ports. In the context of seafarer exploitation, these institutions – the extractive, the governing and the caring – need to ensure worker productivity to facilitate racial accumulation of capital. I argue that the Mission acts as part of the structure of political economic order to produce a racially striated, capitalist politics of care to individuated and atomised seafarers, acting to conciliate conflicts between seafarers and shipowners, maintain seafarer productivity and diminish the possibility of collective mobilisation.

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Section: The Mission and The Power Structures In The Gulfmentioning

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Humanitarianism and racial capitalism in the age of global shipping

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2022

European Journal of International Relations

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